Dear reader,
HKU University of the Arts Utrecht has a wide range of Research and Innovation activities to share with you: a new Professor, presentations at a variety of conferences and meetings, innovative collaboration with the health sector and many new publications.
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New HKU Professor Interactive Narritive Design
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Apps, games and other interactive products all tell a story. However, they often rely on the traditional methods of movies and books and thus miss out on the opportunities offered by interactive media. To investigate how creative professionals can make better use of these specific qualities, HKU Univeristy of the Arts Utrecht has appointed Hartmut Konitz as Professor Interactive Narritive Design, as of 1 May 2016.
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Polyphonic Approach to Artistic Research
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Joris Weijdom, Henny Dörr, Falk Hübner and Nirav Christophe of HKU Professorship Performative Processes presented a ‘Polyphonic Approach to Artistic Research’ at the international conference Artistic Research; Is there some method? at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (7-9 April 2016). The presentation was an interdisciplinary dialogue on presence, representation, experience and absence. The research was presented in an interactive performative fashion, approaching artistic research methodology as something that takes liveness, ephemerality and co-creation into account as its defining performative characteristics. Twelve statements on artistic research were presented as ‘The Prague Provocations’.
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The IRIS project: “Identifying Risk Increases Strength”
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IRIS offers an innovative approach to adolescents whose parents are afflicted with bipolar disorderand the development of mental illness. Innovation Studio at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and University Medical Centre Utrecht are teaming up with a number of experts to conduct a study using a tailor-made app to both capture health well-being data and challenge participants with entertaining interventions to confront their coping strategies.
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InTouch: the future of patient waiting rooms starts here
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HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and University Medical Centre Utrecht are exploring the added value of the crossover between doctor and designer using the Mobility Clinic. In this approach, wherever possible, patients are treated in one single event, which provides multidisciplinary, integrated care, avoiding the necessity of multiple appointments to see different specialists. Already been proved highly successful, the added value of a design perspective for this new approach identified new avenues for improvement.
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HKU at FabCity
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FabCity is part of the Cultural Program Europe by People: a temporary, freely accessible campus at the head of Amsterdam’s Java Island in the city’s Eastern Harbour District. Between 11 April and 24 June, HKU Media, HKU Design and HKU Art and Economics students will join hundreds of European peers, to research transformation issues in eleven areas in Amsterdam, in multidisciplinary teams. They investigate issues which are relevant to all big European cities, and develop creative and sustainable solutions.
Read more on HKU involvement in Fabcity
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An artists' discussion on teaching
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What is the meaning of the artists' impressions for the day-to-day practice of art teaching, as described by Janwillem Schrofer (former director of Rijksakademie voor beeldende kunst) in his forthcoming book Positionering door Kunstenaars (Positioning by Artists)? In a serie of three meetings, artists, art teachers, programmers and scientists engage in the fundamental discussion on the essence of art. The meetings are hosted by Bart van Rosmalen, HKU Professor Art and Professionalisation. The first meeting took place on 17 May and was run as a contemplative dialogue. The other meetings are scheduled for 6 and 27 June.
Read more on the first meeting (Dutch)
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Third edition JamToday Game Jam in Utrecht
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Between 3 and 5 June 2016, the third edition of the JamToday game jam will take place in Utrecht. This year, the game jam will focus on games and Mathematics and will be run in collaboration with Dutch Game Garden and ROC Midden Nederland. The JamToday game jams are great opportunities to meet new people, be a bridge between different stakeholders to develop creative game-based solutions and have fun!
Information and registration
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HKU Expert for Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe
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Vera de Jong, researcher at HKU Professorship Creative Economy was invited by the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe to Krakow (18-19 May) as an expert, to discuss the pre-proposals for the ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures (ENSUF) call on three topics:
- Concepts and strategies for smart urban transformation, growth and shrinkage;
- New dynamics of public services;
- Inclusive, vibrant and accessible urban communities.
A total amount of public funding of maximum €23.8 M will be provided by national and regional funding agencies from 18 European countries, including support from Horizon 2020.
Read more on ENSUF
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Open Innovation 2.0 Conference
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HKU attended the Open Innovation 2.0 Conference in Amsterdam on 23 May, as part of the NL2016 EU presidency. The conference themes focused on how to bring open innovation into practice, especially in the context of the Digital Single Market strategy but also ePlatforms, Data Driven Innovation, Urban Agenda, Future Cities, Living Labs and Business Challenges. The JamToday network was disseminated to the participants alongside the Design for Europe initiative at the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) stand.
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- The evaluation of health-oriented serious games and apps: A differentiated approach, Herre van Oostendorp (UU), Harald Warmelink (HKU), Ruud Jacobs (EUR), Growing Games.
- Towards a Common Space for Research In Fashion (Abstracts, Marco Mossinkoff, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and Anthony Kent, Nottingham Trent University. Presented at In this Place (Nottingham Trent University).
- Two of HKU's SIA take off proposals (IRIS and Real Violin) are selected for second round presentation and review (May and June).
- The arts alone or together? Time use as a measurement of the value of the arts, Elisabetta Lazzaro and Carlofilippo Frateschi.
- Current Movements, Future Landscapes: reflections on the symposium Thinking-Scenography.
- Research as Writing, Daniela Moosman and Nirav Christophe. Contribution to Writing: International Conference on Artistic Research, The Hague, 28-29 April 2016.
- The role of the lecturer in research by students in their artistic practice, Jochem Naafs (HKU Professorship Research in Creative Practices), presented at Study day "Praktijkgericht onderzoek in het hbo".
- Transforming Memories, Lecture performance by Jochem Naafs (HKU Professorship Art and Professionalisation) at Body Space Object Memory Identity Symposium 2016, Coventry University.
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